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Republican wins seat in House in Florida CLEARWATER BEACH, Fla. – Republican David Jolly defeated Democrat Alex Sink on Tuesday in a Tampa-area House district where President Bar...

California mulls how to regulate driverless cars

LOS ANGELES – Sooner or later, consumers will be able to buy cars that rely on computers – not the owner – to do the driving. Though the technology is still being tested, the day ...

Senator’s dispute with CIA grows more public

WASHINGTON – The chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday accused the CIA of improperly removing documents from computers that committee staff members had been using to com...

More questions arise about missing plane

SEPANG, Malaysia – The Malaysian authorities now believe that a jetliner missing since Saturday radically changed course around the time that it stopped communicating with ground controllers...

Bike trails under threat

Future of Colo.’s Rio Grande path uncertain after ruling

World Briefs

Stolen passports probed in plane mystery PATTAYA, Thailand – Authorities questioned travel agents Monday at a beach resort in Thailand about two men who boarded the vanished Malay...

Ukraine warned by Russia

Official: ‘Life now is almost like ... a war’

Judge won’t dismiss general’s sex assault charges

FORT BRAGG, N.C. – A military judge declined Monday to dismiss sexual assault charges against an Army general after reviewing what he said was evidence that political considerations influenc...

How can jet disappear? In the ocean, it’s not hard

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – In an age when people assume that any bit of information is just a click away, the thought that a jetliner could simply disappear over the ocean for more than two da...

World Briefs

Drug capo killed – again – in Mexico MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s government confirmed late Sunday the leader of the Knights Templar Cartel was killed in an early-morning shootout with ...

Gas prices may jump from California emissions law

Predictions differ on how high

As Colorado allows pot sales, others reverse their course

MAASTRICHT, Netherlands – A young man at a bus stop hisses at a passer-by: “What you looking for ... marijuana?” It’s a scene of street peddling that the Netherlands hoped to stamp out in th...